If you are a regular LINE messenger user, you may wish to guard LINE app messages with a password. As your friends or family often use your phone and may read LINE messages secretly, make sure that your Line conversations are password protected so that no one can read your confidential messages. This has become necessary now a days to protect your privacy. Password protection on LINE messenger is having same procedure on both Android and iOS devices.

In this tutorial you will learn the common steps that can be followed on both Android and iOS devices. However, the new version of LINE app for Android and iOS has been updated with build in password protected feature, which locks the app with the given security pin. Kindly follow the steps given below to keep LINE app secure from your friends and family.

Run the Line app on your phone, tap on More option and choose Settings.

Wait for the panel to load.

After that, in the Settings screen scroll down and click on the Privacy option.

On the top of the Privacy section, you will see an option to turn on the Passcode Lock. You can use this feature to protect your conversations from unauthorized access. Turn it on the gray check box.

Once the passcode lock is enabled, you will be asked to set up a new four digits passcode. Since the passcode is short, do not use common codes that can be easily cracked in just a few guesses.

When you are done, just quit the app or go back to main chat interface. From now on, whenever you open Line, the app will ask for passcode before you can see the content inside.

Note: If you forgot the password, then you have to uninstall LINE app on your mobile phone and install back again, all the LINE app messages will be lost after re-installation.

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